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Alexander II of Russia

1818 - 1881

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Alexander II (Russian: Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, romanized: Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ]; 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator (Russian: Алекса́ндр Освободи́тель, romanized: Aleksándr Osvobodítel, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐsvəbɐˈdʲitʲɪlʲ]). The tsar was responsible for other liberal reforms, including reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promoting university education. After an assassination attempt in 1866, Alexander adopted a somewhat more conservative stance until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander II of Russia is the 256th most popular politician (up from 279th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Russia (up from 39th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Politician.

Alexander II of Russia is most famous for the emancipation of the serfs, which was enacted in 1861.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander II of Russia ranks 256 out of 19,576. Before him are Harun al-Rashid, Ay, Mustafa I, Barbara Bush, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maximilian I of Mexico. After him are Heraclius, José Mujica, Septimius Severus, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Anastasius I Dicorus, and Saparmurat Niyazov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Alexander II of Russia ranks 4. Before him are Karl Marx, James Prescott Joule, and Christian IX of Denmark. After him are Ignaz Semmelweis, Emily Brontë, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, and Tewodros II. Among people deceased in 1881, Alexander II of Russia ranks 2. Before him is Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Modest Mussorgsky, Billy the Kid, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, Jenny von Westphalen, and Henri Vieuxtemps.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander II of Russia ranks 27 out of 3,761. Before him are Ayn Rand (1905), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), Yuri Andropov (1914), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814). After him are Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Isaac Asimov (1920), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Alexander III of Russia (1845), and Konstantin Chernenko (1911).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Alexander II of Russia ranks 11. Before him are Kim Jong-il (1941), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), and Yuri Andropov (1914). After him are Alexander III of Russia (1845), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Alexander I of Russia (1777), and Vyacheslav Molotov (1890).

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